A Complete List of Minecraft Enchantments (2024)

Feb. 16, 2022

Among all the mechanics and features in Minecraft, enchantments are one of the most important. They make your gameplay easier and more enjoyable while helping you become drastically more powerful to overcome in-game challenges. So, in this detailed guide, we have compiled a list of all the Minecraft enchantments to help you understand what each does, and how you can get and use them. So, let’s not waste any more time and jump straight in!

What are Enchantments in Minecraft

In simple terms,enchanting is a way to upgrade and add abilities to a Minecraft itemlike armor, swords, and tools. An enchantment can not only give your item new features, but it can also push its existing ability to a whole new level. You can use them to mine faster, fight better, and even improve your in-game luck. The best part is that you can apply any of the enchantments easily.

To help you understand with ease, we have created tables of all Minecraft enchantments separated into different categories. You can use the tables below to learn what each enchantment does along with their maximum levels. However, if you don’t want to read about each of them, use our list ofbest Minecraft enchantmentsfor some of the coolest upgrades and abilities.

While we listed every enchantment that exist in the game, you cannot use many of them alongside other enchantments. So, make sure to follow the next section thoroughly before jumping into the game. Moreover, if the lists above look confusing to you, read our in-depth articles on some of the best enchantments for swords, tridents, and bows linked below.

As you might have noticed, there are many enchantments that you can apply to the same item. But at the same time,some of the enchantments can have contradicting effects.

To tackle that, Minecraft has a set of conflicting enchantments. You canapply only one of themto the item. Let’s go over some common conflicts in this enchantments guide:

It’s unfortunate that even after 15 years of existence, the Java and Bedrock versions of Minecraft are far from equal. Because of that, you have to face some differences in enchantments as well. None of them are groundbreaking and won’t affect a majority of the enchantments.

However, here are the differences you will across Bedrock and Java when using enchantments with tools, weapons, or armor:

Now that you have gone through our Minecraft enchantments list, let’s see how you can apply them to items. There are two ways – using enchanted books and the enchanting table.

Enchanted books are spread throughout the Minecraft world. You can get them bytrading with librarians, in loot chests, and byfishing. Thistype of villageris the most reliable source of enchanted books and usually the main attraction of thevillager trading halls.

If there’s an enchantment, there’s definitely an enchanted book for it. Not to forget, some of the enchantments can only be applied through an enchanted book.

To use enchanted books, all you need is ananvilwhich you can combine these books with the item you want to enchant. Doing so only costs experience orbs, which are easy to collect usingMinecraft XP farms. If this method interests you, dive deep using our tutorial onhow to use enchanted booksin your Minecraft world.

At the core of our Minecraft enchantments guide is the enchanting table.You will need the item you want to enchant, XP levels, and lapis lazuli. Upon placing the item and lapis lazuli in the enchanting table, you will see all the possible enchantments you can apply to it. It shows up to three enchantments at a time, as shown in the screenshot below.

Comparatively, this method mostly takes less time to utilize than the first one but is also a lot more unreliable. Theenchanting table therefore needs a lot more lovesince it’s an old feature that hasn’t been updated in a while.

Enchantments on enchanted books or inside an enchanted table might not be of the highest level. If the level is maximum, then that certain enchantment will provide the best results. So, if you want a higher level enchantment, you can upgrade the enchantments on enchanted books or on items by combining them.

We have a dedicated guide onhow to combine enchantmentsto get the highest possible level, so you can be as powerful or protected as possible.

If you are not in the mood to do manual work of applying enchantments to each of your equipment, you can also obtain enchanted items through the following methods:

Now that you know how enchantments work, it’s time to understand how to remove them. It can be for leveling up the item or removing a wrong enchantment. Fortunately, Minecraft makes it simple to remove an enchantment. You just need to place it on agrindstone.

Grindstones are a common in-game block that you can use to repair and disenchant items. All you need to do is place your enchanted item in the grindstone and then click on the disenchanted item on the right.

To dig deeper into disenchanting, use our guide onhow to remove enchantments in Minecraft. Keep in mind thatall enchantments will be removedfrom the item, not just one that you don’t want. Also, you can’t removeCurse of BindingandCurse of Vanishingin any way.

With that, you are ready to explore and make the most out of all the in-game enchantments. Our Minecraft enchantments guide is here to help you learn about the enchantments one at a time. You can bookmark it to keep coming back and digging deeper. That said, don’t waste a moment more and start enchanting!

The greatest enchantment is the mending enchantment. Although it doesn’t provide you with OP buffs or abilities, it allows you to repair your armor, tools, and weapons with XP. This way, it saves a whole ton of resources that would have been used to craft new gear.

The treasure enchantments are the hardest to get since you cannot obtain them through the enchanting table. Those include – wind burst, mending, frost walker, soul speed, swift sneak, and curse enchantments. Out of these, the hardest ones to get are swift sneak and wind burst because of the dangerous structures and low odds.

You’ll need 15 bookshelves around the enchanting table to get the highest tier of enchantments.

Enchanting was added all the way back in Minecraft 1.0.0.

Some items like theshield,shears, and a brush cannot be enchanted in the enchanting table, but they can be combined with enchanted books in an anvil. However, those enchantments include general enchantments like mending, unbreaking, and curse of vanishing.

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